World-News

http://www.petitiononline.com/Abstain/


A message from Hazel

Asia Times
by Jim Lobe

02/05/07

Just in case they needed reminding ahead of passing a non-binding resolution on President George W Bush’s plans to send more troops to Iraq, US senators have it officially: a civil war is raging in Iraq and the country’s troubles won’t end any time soon. The US intelligence community’s report also debunks a frequent Bush claim that Iran plays a major role in support of Shi’ite militias...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB06Ak02.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe

Christian Science Monitor
by Alec Ian Gershberg & Darrick Hamilton

02/05/07

The Supreme Court is considering two school desegregation cases that will probably result in limits on the use of race as a criterion for admission to public elementary and high schools. Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is supporting the plaintiffs’ arguments that the use of such racial criteria is unconstitutional. … But Bush officials are being inconsistent. They don’t apply that standard to their own public education policies. It’s time they embraced the premise of their own student testing rules — race matters — and support efforts to promote access and diversity in schools. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law, is remarkable because it deals with racial issues in a manner at odds with nearly every other policy advocated by the Bush administration — including its current argument to the Supreme Court that school desegregation plans must be ‘race neutral’...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0205/p09s01-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

02/05/07

I know, there are wars on — which is the main justification given for the ballooning defense budget. It is true that during Bush’s tenure, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have squandered a staggering $500 billion — all to actually increase the chances that anti-American terrorism will again occur. But the military services, which play the bureaucratic budget game well, have used the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to fund high-tech military toys that have little to do with fighting against terrorism or in Iraq or Afghanistan. And according to the hawks, such as the Journal, the taxpayer should be happy that all of this wasted money, plus some legitimate spending on what should be relatively inexpensive efforts against terrorists, comes in at only 4% of the GDP! No armed force ever fought another — even a guerrilla army or terrorist group — with a percentage of GDP...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1906


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland

Dean Baker writes: "While bipartisan progress would be encouraging, it is very difficult to see any evidence of compromise from President Bush in key areas of public policy. In fact, in almost every important area, the positions he has adopted since the November election have been more extreme than those he had previously advocated. Most of the public has probably failed to recognize President Bush's sharp turn to the right, because the media has chosen to place more emphasis on his public gestures toward the Democratic leadership than his policy proposals."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607D.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

Republicans have blocked a potentially momentous Senate debate, at least for now, on a bipartisan resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq. Forty-nine senators, almost all Democrats, voted to proceed with the debate, eleven short of the number needed under Senate rules on the issue. Forty-seven senators, nearly all Republicans, voted not to proceed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607C.shtml

President Bush on Monday asked a skeptical, Democrat-run Congress to approve $700 billion in new military spending - much of it for the Iraq war - and to curb many domestic programs.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607B.shtml

The people running the Iraq War are eager to make an example of Ehren Watada. They've convened a kangaroo court-martial. But the man on trial is setting a profound example of conscience - helping to undermine the war that the Pentagon's top officials are so eager to protect.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Norman+Solomon

In an extraordinary internal challenge to the unruly Office of the Vice President (OVP), the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) has formally petitioned the Attorney General to direct the OVP to comply with a requirement that executive branch organizations disclose statistics on their classification and declassification activity to ISOO.

For the last three years, Vice President Cheney's office has refused to divulge its classification statistics to ISOO, despite a seemingly explicit requirement that it do so. Prior to 2002, such information had routinely been transmitted and reported in ISOO's annual reports to the President.

The disclosure requirement appears in ISOO Directive 1 (at section 2001.80): "Each agency that creates or handles classified information shall report annually to the Director of ISOO statistics related to its security classification program."

Such ISOO directives "shall be binding upon the agencies," President Bush wrote in Executive Order 13292 (section 5.1). Significantly, an "agency" here means not only a statutorily-defined executive branch agency (which would not include the OVP), but also refers to "any other entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information" (which would include the OVP).

Last May, the Federation of American Scientists urged ISOO to press for the Vice President's compliance. (SN, 05/31/06).

"Since the Office of the Vice President has publicly staked out a position that openly defies the plain language of the executive order, ISOO now has a responsibility to clarify the matter," we wrote at that time. "Otherwise, every agency will feel free to re-interpret the order in idiosyncratic and self-serving ways."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2006/05/isoo-ovp.pdf


From Secrecy News -- 02/06/07



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Gentechnik: Einwendungen gegen Pharma-Erbsen in Gatersleben

Die Gentechnikfirma Novoplant plant einen Freisetzungsversuch mit genmanipulierten Pharma-Erbsen in Gatersleben. Das Umweltinstitut München befürchtet die Kontamination traditioneller Erbsensorten und ruft zum Widerstand auf. Einwenden kann jede/r - ein Wohnsitz in Gatersleben ist nicht Voraussetzung.

Weitere Infos und Mustereinwendung http://www.umweltinstitut.org/pharmaerbse


Aus: Campact-News 02/07

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Steuergelder für wirkungslose Pharma-Erbsen: Gentechnik-Skandal in Ostdeutschland

Das Bundesforschungsministerium und das Land Sachsen-Anhalt fördern die Entwicklung wirkungsloser Pharma-Erbsen durch die ostdeutsche Gentechnikfirma Novoplant mit weit über einer Million Euro. Durch die Verfütterung der Gen-Erbsen an künstlich infizierte Versuchstiere wurde aber "kein einziger positiver Effekt auf den Infektionsverlauf erreicht", heißt es in einer Fütterungsstudie der Universität Hannover, die dem Umweltinstitut München vorliegt. Es bleiben die Risiken wie Bestäubung traditioneller Erbsenfelder und die Gefahr einer gentechnischen Verschmutzung der Genbank Gatersleben. Das Umweltinstitut München fordert das Aus für dieses riskante Experiment. Auf unserer Internetseite finden Sie Hintergründe und eine Mustereinwendung gegen den geplanten Versuch. Bitte schicken Sie unterzeichnete Einwendungen bis zum 7. März an das Umweltinstitut München zurück!

Lesen Sie unsere Pressemitteilung auf: http://www.umweltinstitut.org/frames/allg/press/f-20070213.htm

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"Wirkungslose Pharma-Erbsen"

Das Umweltinstitut München wirft dem Bundesforschungsministerium und dem Land Sachsen-Anhalt vor, die Entwicklung "wirkungsloser Pharma-Erbsen" durch die ostdeutsche Gentechnikfirma Novoplant mit weit über einer Million Euro zu fördern. Durch die Verfütterung der Gen-Erbsen an künstlich infizierte Versuchstiere sei "kein einziger positiver Effekt auf den Infektionsverlauf erreicht" worden, heiße es in einer Fütterungsstudie der Universität Hannover, die dem Umweltinstitut München vorliege. Während also auf der einen Seite kein positiver Effekt festzustellen sei, blieben auf der anderen Seite "die Risiken wie Bestäubung traditioneller Erbsenfelder und die Gefahr einer gentechnischen Verschmutzung der Genbank Gatersleben", kritisiert das Umweltinstitut. Die Umweltwissenschaftler fordern "das Aus für dieses riskante Experiment".

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15378

It's just wrong: The Bush budget makes serious short-term and long-term mistakes.
http://ga3.org/ct/2720pgF1gzoh/

"Paycheck Protection": No depths of hypocrisy are too deep for the Bush administration.
http://ga3.org/ct/sd20pgF1gzol/

by Alan Jenkins, TomPaine.com

Bush talks a good game of opportunity, but how is the country really doing?
http://ga3.org/ct/s120pgF1gzoo/

Our Children's Homeland Insecurity

by Michael Petit, TomPaine.com

Where conservative ideology rules, our youth are left increasingly vulnerable.

http://ga3.org/ct/w720pgF1gzok/

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Homeland insecurity

TruthDig
by Marie Cocco

02/14/08

Grim talk of terrorism is again making headlines. First came the announcement that the United States will try the masterminds of the 9/11 plot, through military commissions — contemporary kangaroo courts. Now comes Senate approval of a vast surveillance bill that gives sanction to the warrantless snooping on Americans that President Bush carried out secretly until the program was exposed in the press...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080214_homeland_insecurity/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=kangaroo+courts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=military+commissions
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marie+Cocco

"The media has been complicit in allowing the president to get away with establishing baselines for the debate," writes Andre Stephens. "They ask questions using the false premises already laid out by the administration. Through a combination of repetition by administration officials and the mainstream media, and the absence of real challenges to these premises by Democrats, the nation winds up hearing about 'the way forward' instead of a real and honest debate."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607M.shtml

A lengthy Senate floor debate on the Iraq war is inevitable, despite a Republican effort to block it, Democrats say. Following a procedural vote Monday that sidetracked a resolution on the war, Democrats said they would eventually find a way to put each senator on record. On the table is a nonbinding resolution backed by several Republicans and most Democrats that would state Senate opposition to President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607K.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Bill Simpich writes: "'Special security precautions do not erode the presumption of innocence.' Judge John Head's observation captured his style of jurisprudence. Mindful of public relations as several security officers monitored the proceedings in the small courtroom, but vigilant in making sure that every one of First Lt. Watada's witnesses would be deemed 'irrelevant.' Absent a stroke of luck, the lieutenant's defense against the charges of missing movement to Iraq, and 'disgraceful' conduct unbecoming an officer, have been whittled down to his own testimony and that of his commanding officer as a character witness. When Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, excoriated the proceedings as an 'atrocity' and accused the judge of judicial misconduct, the court's response was almost sheepish."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020607J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

Löbau sperrt aus

Damit sie nicht umziehen müssen: Zimmerverbot für ALG-II-Empfänger

„Es ist kein Scherz: In Löbau macht die Woba kurzerhand Zimmer dicht, um Wohnungen zu verkleinern. Denn ist das Domizil eines ALG-II-Empfängers unangemessen groß, wird ein Raum einfach abgesperrt. 95 Fälle gibt es schon….“ Artikel von Petra Siemon in der Chemnitzer Morgenpost vom 2. Februar 2007 http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1397008


Hartz IV: Mietern wird ein Zimmer ihrer Wohnung abgeriegelt. Mitarbeiter kontrollieren regelmäßig

„Wie die „Dresdner Morgenpost“ berichtet dürfen in der sächsischen Stadt Löbau von Hartz IV betroffene Mieter in ihren Wohnungen jeweils ein Zimmer nicht mehr betreten, wenn die Größe der Wohnung den Regelquadratmetersatz überschreitet…“ Artikel von Peter Weinfurth in Linke Zeitung vom 03.02.2007 http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/content/view/2061/32/


»Die Gesetze sind nun mal so, wie sie sind«

In Löbau verzichten 100 ALG-II-Empfänger auf einen Teil ihrer Wohnraums. Er ist größer, als das Jobcenter erlaubt. Ein Gespräch von Ralf Wurzbacher in junge Welt vom 06.02.2007 mit Matthias Urbansky, Geschäftsführer der Wohnungsverwaltung und Bau GmbH im sächsischen Löbau http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-06/055.php


BAG-SHI: Zunehmend Probleme im Bereich Anerkennung der Unterkunftskosten bei Wohneigentum in ‚Hartz IV’

„Aufgrund sich häufender Beschwerden von Eigentumswohnungs- und Eigenheimbesitzern, die auf Leistungen nach dem Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) angewiesen sind, stellt die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen e.V. (BAG-SHI) klar, dass bei selbstgenutztem Wohneigentum die angemessenen tatsächlichen Aufwendungen für die Unterkunft zu übernehmen sind…“ Pressemitteilung vom 29.1.2007 http://www.bag-shi.de/presse/archiv/070129pm-unterkunftskosten


Die Bundesagentur bestätigt: Viele ALG-II-Betroffene müssen Wohnkosten aus der Regelleistung bestreiten

Anne Ames von der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Erwerbslosen- und Sozialhilfeinitiativen hat die offizielle Statistik der BA zu „Alg II und Wohnen” genau unter die Lupe genommen und etwas gegen den Strich ausgewertet. Sie liefert gute Argumente für die örtlichen Auseinandersetzungen um „angemessene“ Kosten der Unterkunft und für eine grundlegende Korrektur der Gewährungspraxis. Artikel von Anne Ames aus dem BAG-SHI Rundbrief im Dezember 2006 bei tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/aktuelles/2007/wohnkosten_anne-ames.aspx


"Zwangsumzug bei Arbeitslosengeld II?

Artikel von und bei Herbert Masslau in einer Neufassung 4. Februar 2007. Dabei wurden soweit dies zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt möglich war, die ersten veröffentlichten Entscheidungen des Bundessozialgerichts zu "Hartz IV" eingearbeitet. http://www.herbertmasslau.de/pageID_2856171.html


Demonstration für höhere Miet- und Heizkostenobergrenzen in Bremen

Demo am 8. Februar 14 Uhr Bahnhofsvorplatz / 15 Uhr Sozialbehörde, Contrescarpe 72. Siehe Aufruf und weitere Infos bei Tacheles http://www.tacheles-sozialhilfe.de/harry/view.asp?ID=1629


Aus: LabourNet, 6. Februar 2007

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Löbau sperrt aus

Der Laie wundert sich…. Oder auch nicht (mehr)?

Kommentar von Armin Kammrad vom 06.02.2007 zur rechtwidrigen Selbstjustiz gegen ALG II-Bezieher in Löbau http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/adloebau.html

Aus dem Text: „…Es gibt für die Betroffenen als zwei Möglichkeiten, die am besten kombiniert werden. 1. Einfach in die geräumten Räume wieder einzuziehen. Da noch ein Mietvertrag besteht und das Mietverhältnis nicht gekündigt ist, handelt es sich hier auch um keine Besetzung. Voraussetzung ist jedoch, dass nicht bereits ein neuer Mietvertrag vereinbart wurde. Kommt das „Räumkommando“ der Woba einfach nicht reinlassen, Kontakt zu Freunden, Erwerbsloseninitiativen aufnehmen um den Wohnraum zu schützen, allerdings ohne selbst handgreiflich zu werden. Gut ist auch ein Anruf bei der Polizei und Anzeige gegen die „Räumer“ wegen Hausfriedensbruch. Zwar verhaftet die Polizei sicher nicht die Woba-Leute, aber eine Räumung zulassen wird sie sicher auch nicht; kann sie nicht zulassen, solange ein Mietverhältnis besteht. 2. Möglich ist natürlich auch der Rechtsweg. Dazu kompetenten Rechtsanwalt ansprechen. Ist dies nicht möglich, wenigstens Strafanzeige dort stellen, wo versucht wird, gegen den Willen die Räume zu betreten. Wie aus dem Interview der „jungen welt“ hervorgeht, plant die Woba erst neue Mietverträge. Das bedeutet eben, dass die alten über den früheren Wohnraum noch weiter gelten. Es ist schlichtweg immer noch Eure Wohnung.“


Aus: LabourNet, 7. Februar 2007

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Wohnungsbaugesellschaften stutzen Wohnraum für ALG-II-Empfänger zurecht

Die Klagewut gegen die Arbeitsmarktreform "Hartz IV" wird wohl bald noch einmal an Intensität gewinnen. Anlass könnte die neue Vorgehensweise gegen Empfänger von Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) II sein, die größere Wohnungen haben als dies die ALG-II-Kriterien vorschreiben. Wohnungsgesellschaften in Mitteldeutschland sind neuerdings dazu übergegangen, die Wohnungen auf "Hartz-IV-Niveau" regelrecht zurechtzustutzen. Dafür werden ganze Räume abgesperrt oder dort zumindest die Heizung stillgelegt. Die Linkspartei sprach am Freitag von einem Skandal, der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund nannte die Vorgehensweise "würdelos und demütigend".
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15308

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Löbau sperrt aus

Zimmerklau bei Hartz IV-Betroffenen. Wohnungsgesellschaften reduzieren Wohnraum: Streit in Linkspartei, Mieterbund lobt Kreativität

„Nachdem im sächsischen Löbau Bezieher von Arbeitslosengeld II auf ein Zimmer verzichten, um trotz Hartz IV- Kriterien in ihrer Wohnung bleiben zu können, wollen auch Wohnungsunternehmen in Sachsen-Anhalt Arbeitslosen Räume sperren. Das Echo auf diese »Hartz IV-Anpassung« ist geteilt…“ Artikel von Gabriele Oertel im ND vom 10.02.07 http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=104934&IDC=16


Richtlinien zu den Unterkunftskosten (KdU-Richtlinien)

aktualisiert bei Tacheles http://www.my-sozialberatung.de/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/my-sozialberatung.de/kdu&localparams=1&range=0,30


Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge nach Hartz IV

»Bei unserem Notruftelefon glüht der Draht«

Berliner Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge rechnet für dieses Jahr mit einer Verschärfung der Situation. Ein Gespräch von Ralf Wurzbacher in junge Welt vom 15.02.2007 mit Anne Allex, Mitstreiterin bei der Berliner Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge http://www.jungewelt.de/2007/02-15/052.php


Aus: LabourNet, 15. Februar 2007

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Mieter zahlen drauf - Hartz-IV-Umzüge sorgen für steigende Mieten. Preise für gebrauchte Eigenheime blieben konstant

„Die Einführung des Arbeitslosengeldes II hat in den vergangenen zwölf Monaten in NRW die Mieten für einfach ausgestattete Wohnungen steigen lassen. Dies geht aus einer gestern in Dortmund vorgestellten Marktübersicht des Immobilienverbandes Deutschland (IVD) für Nordrhein-Westfalen hervor. Viele Hartz-IV-Empfänger hätten in kleinere Wohnungen umziehen müssen. Durch die größere Nachfrage seien Mieten gestiegen. Der Maklerverband verzeichnete teilweise einen Anstieg der Kaltmieten zwischen sieben und elf Prozent…“ Bericht in der taz NRW vom
14.3.2007 http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/03/14/a0001.1/text

Wir erinnern in diesem Zusammenhang an:

Wenn Kappung der Mietkosten bei Hartz IV – dann zu Lasten der Vermieter !

Ein nicht unernster Hinweis auf Art. 14 Abs. 2 GG von Lutz Eisel, Rechtsanwalt, Bochum, vom 15.4.2006 http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/arbeit/realpolitik/hilfe/wohn_eisel.html


Aus: LabourNet, 15. März 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hartz+IV+und+Wohnen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alg+II+und+Wohnen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zwangsumzug

Reps. Jay Insee (D-WA) and Jim Ramsted (R-MN) will soon introduce the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2007 which would put into law protections for undeveloped national forest areas, protecting wildlife habitat, clean air and water, and more. They hope to have 140 co-sponsors on the bill before its introduction. Please ask your Representative to co-sponsor this bill.

Click here to take action:
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/RdlessHseCospons

http://tinyurl.com/25turj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arthur+Silber

Classically Liberal
by CLS

02/03/07

How routine is it for police to stop people and conduct searches? Apparently very routine. Under the constitution such things should only happen if police have probable cause but police interpret that their powers very widely and your rights very narrowly. They see probable cause as meaning ‘any damn time we please.’ Imagine the attitude of George Bush regarding constitutional rights and give it to millions of state employees with guns...

http://tinyurl.com/yskobs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Salon
by US Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)

02/02/07

Congress is gearing up for a big Iraq debate next week. The Senate will take up the John Warner-Carl Levin resolution, which some are portraying as an important, symbolic rebuke of the president’s Iraq policy. Symbols can be powerful, but only if they have substance behind them. Read the fine print of the resolution itself, and you will find that it is not a rebuke at all. In parts, it reads like a reauthorization of the war, rejecting troop redeployment and specifically authorizing ‘vigorous operations’ in part of Iraq. This resolution isn’t a symbolic rebuke of the president; instead it symbolizes a Congress that is too timid to challenge the president’s failed Iraq policy.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/02/feingold/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Feingold

Human Events
by Steve Chapman

02/04/07

When police found Shawn Hornbeck living with his alleged abductor four years after he was kidnapped, the question arose: Why didn’t the 15-year-old simply run away? But trapped and isolated, a hostage can be scared into thinking that the consequences of leaving — for himself or his loved ones — would be far worse than the consequences of staying. So he passes up opportunities to escape. That’s roughly our plight in Iraq...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19267


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steve+Chapman

In Search of Support for PTSD

Since leaving Iraq in 2003, Jullian Philip Goodrum - like many soldiers - has been gradually overcoming the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. When he began experiencing mental problems consistent with PTSD, he couldn't get treatment, and he blames the army for their lack of resources.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507HA.shtml



Parents Blame VA in Fatal Overdose

An Army-funded study published in January in the American Journal of Psychiatry found that almost one in five combat veterans returning from Iraq suffered from PTSD, which increases the risk of substance abuse. Many of those returning troops also suffer physical pain. The dilemma, said Dr. Andrew Shaner, deputy chief of psychiatry and mental health at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, is that "most drugs to treat pain hold potential for abuse."

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031307HA.shtml



One-Third of "War on Terror" Vets Have Mental Health Problems

A new US study has found that nearly a third of war veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq who were treated by Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 returned with mental health difficulties.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/031307HB.shtml

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Study: Thousands Of Veterans Return With Mental Illness: Nearly a third of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who received care from Veterans Affairs between 2001 and 2005 were diagnosed with mental health or psychosocial ills, a new study concludes.

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6217766



One-quarter of Iraq, Afghanistan veterans filing injury claims: More than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed injury claims with the government, according to an internal Department of Veterans Affairs report.

http://staugustine.com/stories/031307/nation_4464662.shtml


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PTSD

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said that earnings reports show that oil industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very likely hoping to influence the mid-term election.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507ED.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Exxon
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=election

Founded in 1971, the EPA Library Network houses information on everything from basic sciences to local records on hazardous waste, drinking water, pollution prevention and toxic substances. In February 2006, when President Bush unveiled his budget proposal for FY 2007, the EPA Library Network learned that its annual disbursement would be slashed 80 percent.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EC.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=EPA+Library

Environmentalist Bill McKibben is spearheading what will be the largest public demonstration against global warming our country has ever seen. But instead of a march on Washington, which would burn too much carbon, it will take place all over the nation, in unique forms.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EA.shtml



Game Over on Global Warming?

Action to stop global warming would have to be radical, but climate change can be slowed.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020507EB.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McKibben

Executives from government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, including KBR and Compass of the UK, face a rocky ride in Washington this week as Henry Waxman, new chairman of the House of Representatives' chief investigative committee, begins hearings on allegations of "waste, fraud and abuse."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507T.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Waxman

Health care providers would get smaller pay increases when caring for the elderly, poor and disabled under President Bush's budget plan, submitted to Congress on Monday.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507R.shtml

The new testimony could make things more awkward for Cheney, due to be called as a defense witness soon.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16960657/site/newsweek/


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney

The Australian lawyer for David Hicks has accused the US military of an act of bastardry for waiting until the departure of his legal team to announce new charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1840537.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hicks

A coalition of charities, faith groups and unions has warned Tony Blair that any military action against Iran would have "unthinkable" consequences.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6330353.stm


From Information Clearing House

Two destroyers answered the call to duty today, and a unexpected call it was. The Navy is calling a surge deployment.

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6035178


From Information Clearing House

As Congress weighs action on the escalation of the Iraq War, it may want to consider the business connections of retired generals who have been making recommendations, particularly those of retired four-star Army general John M. “Jack” Keane, who is one of the authors of President Bush’s “surge” policy.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/358/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Keane

On the eve of critical U.S. Senate votes on President Bush's Iraq escalation plan, the Progressive States Network announced today that over 20 state legislatures so far have introduced resolutions opposing the President's move and demanding Congress use its power to stop the so-called "surge."

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/375/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

Video

What if the U.S. government released an "educational video" to teach today's Americans how to be good citizens?

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/356/59/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_trial


From Supreme Law Firm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fitzgerald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby

http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/iraqfilibuster/fdsadc


Informant: Theresa J. Steed



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=troop+surge

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=10360

Distracting Congress from the Real War Plan: Iran
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10298


Informant: Carol Moore in DC

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jorge+Hirsch
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts

http://www.gp.org/press/pr_2007_02_05.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Orleans

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-23.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jay+Bookman

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-21.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gary+Younge

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-30.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Exxon

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0205-22.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Colin+Powell
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0205-01.htm

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US refusenik officer calls Iraq war illegal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2007234,00.html


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

http://www.businessportal24.com/de/Bundesnetzagentur_Chef_Kurth_UMTS_Auktion_111271.html
http://www.faz.net/d/invest/meldung.aspx?id=41059176

Neue UMTS-Versteigerung geplant
http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/mobilfunk_nid_44097.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion soll 2008 starten
http://www.golem.de/0702/50361.html

Netzagentur will 2008 neue UMTS-Lizenzen vergeben
http://www.net-tribune.de/article/060207-42.php

Bundesnetzagentur plant weitere UMTS-Versteigerung
http://www.ftd.de/technik/it_telekommunikation/158928.html?zid=90893

Regulierer kündigt zweite UMTS-Versteigerung an
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/digitale/handy/404512

Bundesnetzagentur-Chef Kurth kündigt zweite UMTS-Auktion an
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/nachrichten/wirtschaft/computer/67,1a5d10474e7a71e14b480a74e79de89d.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion steht Mobilfunkbranche bevor
http://www.cio.de/news/wirtschaftsnachrichten/832682/
http://www.mainpost.de/aaw/wirtschaft/art106,3885075.html

Neue UMTS-Lizenzen kommen unter den Hammer
http://www.silicon.de/enid/mobile_wireless/25229

Kurth kündigt zweite UMTS-Auktion an
http://www.tariftip.de/News/21407/Kurth-kuendigt-zweite-UMTS-Auktion-an.html

UMTS geht in die nächste Runde
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/archiv/07.02.2007/3065984.asp

Weitere UMTS-Lizenzen werden versteigert
http://www.xonio.com/news/news_24126440.html?tid1=7400&tid2=0

Bund hat weitere UMTS-Frequenzen im Angebot
http://de.theinquirer.net/2007/02/07/bund_hat_weitere_umtsfrequenze.html

Zweite UMTS-Auktion: Wer steht in den Startlöchern?
http://www.wiwo.de/pswiwo/fn/ww2/sfn/buildww/id/126/id/245826/fm/0/SH/0/depot/0/

UMTS-Auktion zum Zweiten
http://www.haufe.de/SID106.LwhoqEIJViA/newsDetails?newsID=1170781809.55&d_start:int=0&topic=Computer_Web&topicView=Computer%20und%20Web

Zweite UMTS-Versteigerung bahnt sich an
http://www.faz.net/s/RubE2C6E0BCC2F04DD787CDC274993E94C1/Doc~EFF4BF23912BE4AFF941613F4084C0F81~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

UMTS ist da, offiziell, für jeden
http://www.stern.de/computer-technik/telefon/:Mobilfunk-UMTS/550847.html

Erste UMTS900-Netze schon 2007
http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2007/kw06/s24844.html

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Kann mobiles Telefonieren tödlich sein?
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Scheiner

Handys können Krebs auslösen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261806/

Zunahme der Hirntumore bei Handy-Vieltefonierern: Risiko steigt um 39 Prozent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261838/

Lösen Handys Krebs aus, Krebs durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3265429/

Handy am Ohr: Hirntumor?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3270151/

Langzeitstudie aus Dänemark: kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040849/

Kein Beweis für ein erhöhtes Risiko durch Handys?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271250/

Elektrosmog als Krebsrisiko: Kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271439/

Flucht aus Oberammergau: Pfarrer flüchtet vor Handy-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3258411/

Wissenschaft zu Mobilfunk
http://tinyurl.com/93epp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bundesnetzagentur

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard40.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/bovard

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul366.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski173.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/kwiatkowski

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis67.html

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MONTAGE SET TO MUSIC: Images of Iran
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5697/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Margolis

"Patriot" & Flugzeugträger

Die christliche Friedensorganisation Pax Christi warnt vor der Vorbereitung eines Angriffskrieges gegen den Iran. Im Januar 2007 hätten sich die Hinweise verdichtet, dass die US-Regierung sehr konkrete kriegerische Angriffe auf den Iran plane. Die Neokonservativen um Präsident George W. Bush versuchten "offenbar dessen restliche Amtszeit zu nutzen, den Konflikt um das iranische Atomprogramm weiter zu eskalieren und den wachsenden iranischen Einfluss im Nahen Osten zu brechen", vermutet Pax Christi. Diese "Machtpolitik der USA" komme den Interessen der israelischen Regierung entgegen, die ihrerseits den Iran und Syrien als Bedrohung betrachte und gegen sie rüste.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=15278

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,,OID6379652_REF1,00.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

Paul Krugman writes: "One of the best of the many recent books about the Iraq debacle is Rajiv Chandrasekaran's 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City.' The book tells a tale of hopes squandered in the name of politicization and privatization: key jobs in Baghdad's Green Zone were assigned on the basis of loyalty rather than know-how, while key functions were outsourced to private contractors. Two recent reports in the New York Times serve as a reminder that the Bush administration has brought the same corruption of governance to the home front. Call it the Green-Zoning of America."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507E.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Krugman

David Swanson writes: "This president believes that laws passed by Congress can be overturned by the president. Only after the Supreme Court has ruled on each point of law is the president obliged to obey and properly execute them. So, why have a Congress at all?"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507B.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=signing+statement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Swanson

Army First Lt. Ehren Watada was called an exemplary soldier. But then he decided to face court-martial rather than join a war he says is illegal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507A.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

Like WMDs, Iran's purported military nuclear ambitions are a distraction from the real questions.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/02/05/asking_the_wrong_questions_about_iran.php

by David Bacon, TomPaine.com

Powerful politicians, industry groups and think tanks want a supply of disposable, unempowered immigrant workers.

http://ga3.org/ct/u120pgF15m0A/

by Toni McElroy and Kevin Whelan, TomPaine.com Bush gave up on New Orleans, so Congress must give orders to rebuild our damaged cities.

http://ga3.org/ct/ud20pgF15m0M/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Orleans

Jeff Cohen writes: "It's conventional wisdom that if Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign falters with Democratic activists in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, it will be over the issue of the Iraq War. And her vacillations on the war. Yet the dividing-line issue in the upcoming primaries may turn out to be not Iraq, but health care. And just as on Iraq, the Democratic base is in no mood for timidity, halfway measures and vague rhetoric."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507P.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeff+Cohen

"The California Nurses Association reported that in the first quarter of 2006, the US Department of Veterans Affairs 'treated 20,638 Iraq veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have a backlog of 400,000 cases.' A returning soldier has to wait an average of 165 days for a VA decision on initial disability benefits, and an appeal can take up to three years. This is unacceptable and reprehensible," write Andrew J. Weaver and Ray McGovern.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507M.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=post-traumatic+stress+disorder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

The Bush administration is expected to ask for a defense budget of $481 billion - near historic highs. It will also ask for additional funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, taking the cost of those conflicts this year to close to $165 billion, and will present estimates for next year's costs that will push war spending above the total cost of Vietnam. But if the military's top officers have their way, today's proposal may be only a precursor to a future of even larger defense budgets.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507L.shtml

Jason Leopold reports: "As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald gets ready to wrap up the government's perjury and obstruction of justice case against former vice presidential staffer I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, he is fighting to introduce two 'powerful' pieces of evidence he says will help convince the jury that Libby deliberately lied to federal investigators about how and when he discovered the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson and whether he leaked the information to reporters."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020507J.shtml



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Libby
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Fitzgerald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Valerie+Plame
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jason+Leopold

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD FOR THEM.
THANK YOU, RIA.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=9948&pst=620858


A message from Linda

Please sign this petition! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/777611166?ltl=1162221734/


A message from Linda

„Der US-amerikanische Bundesstaat Florida will die papierlosen elektronischen Wahlmaschinen abschaffen, berichtet die New York Times. Florida war Vorreiter auf dem Gebiet der Wahlmaschinen, hatte jedoch mehrfach Ungereimtheiten und Abstimmungspannen verzeichnen müssen. Mehr als die Hälfte der Wähler Floridas stimmen auf papierlosen Wahlmaschinen ab, die den Lochkarten-Maschinen der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl 2000 gefolgt waren…“ Meldung auf Heise-Online vom 03.02.2007 http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84751


Cottbus verabschiedet sich von Wahlcomputern

„Die Stadt Cottbus beabsichtigt, auf den geplanten Kauf von 74 bislang gemieteten Wahlcomputern zu verzichten. Wie die Berliner Zeitung in ihrer heutigen Ausgabe berichtet, wollen die Stadtverordneten am kommenden Mittwoch einen entsprechenden Beschluss vom September 2006 revidieren…“ Meldung bei heise online vom 29.01.2007 mit Hintergründen und Links http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84396


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Februar 2007

Please sign this letter asking Congress to require routine actions to verify election outcome integrity, and pointing out that 2% audits won't do that, and that citizen oversight is needed.

Here is the letter which was just completed this a.m.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/Letter2Congress.pdf

To sign it, just send your name, full address, any credentials or affiliations to me kathy.dopp @gmail.com

People may add themselves as signees or suggest minor changes to the letter through Wednesday if they want me to hand deliver it in DC during my upcoming trip to the East Coast, although we'll probably continue to add signees after that for people who want to send the letter themselves to their Senators and Representative.

It would be great to get signees from every state, so please forward this to your friends and lists and ask them to sign it also. I'll be updating the letter with new signees, and may sort the signees by state.

Thank you. It is important to get real measures that will assure us of accurate election outcomes because we all know that having paper ballots that are never manually counted leaves our elections wide open to vote fraud or outcome-altering machine errors.


Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org
National Election Data Archive
Dedicated to Accurately Counting Elections


"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816

#Die Linkspartei.PDS: Pressemitteilungen

05. Februar 2007

Zum Beschluss des Bundesgerichtshofes zu heimlichen PC-online-Durchsuchungen privater Computer durch Ermittlungsbehörden erklärt die stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Linkspartei.PDS Katina Schubert:

Der BGH hat in seinem Urteil den verdeckten Ermittlungswünschen der Sicherheitsbehörden im Privatbereich eine Absage erteilt. Das ist gut und schützt das Grundrecht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, das das Bundesverfassungsgericht mit seinem Volkszählungsurteil festgeschrieben hat. Wir wenden uns gleichzeitig gegen eine Änderung der Strafprozessordnung, um die heimlichen online-Durchsuchungen privater Computer durch Sicherheitsbehörden doch zu ermöglichen. Die Privatsphäre muss geschützt bleiben, Ermittlungen können nach der geltenden Rechtslage erfolgen.

http://sozialisten.de/presse/presseerklaerungen/view_html?zid=35075

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Verdeckte Online-Durchsuchung unzulässig

„Die heimliche Durchsuchung der im Computer eines Beschuldigten gespeicherten Dateien mit Hilfe eines Programms, das ohne Wissen des Betroffenen aufgespielt wurde (verdeckte Online-Durchsuchung), ist nach der Strafprozessordnung unzulässig. Es fehlt an der für einen solchen Eingriff erforderlichen Ermächtigungsgrundlage. Das hat der 3. Strafsenat des Bundesgerichtshofs auf die Beschwerde des Generalbundesanwalts gegen einen Beschluss entschieden, mit dem der Ermittlungsrichter des Bundesgerichtshofs den Antrag auf eine verdeckte Online-Durchsuchung abgelehnt hatte…“ Mitteilung der Pressestelle des Bundesgerichtshofs Nr. 17/2007 vom 5.2.07 http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2007&Sort=3&nr=38775&pos=0&anz=16


Heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen sind unzulässig

Meldung bei heise online vom 05.02.2007 mit Hintergründen und Links http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/84776


“Widerstand gegen die Onlinedurchsuchung ist wichtiger denn je”

„Die Mülheimer Autorin und Bürgerrechtlerin Twister (Bettina Winsemann) hat das Urteil des Bundesgerichtshofes zur Onlinedurchsuchung begrüßt. Am heutigen Tage hatte der BGH, der bereits zuvor die Onlinedurchsuchung als “ohne entsprechende Rechtsgrundlage unzulässig” beurteilt hatte, dieses Urteil erneut bekräftigt nachdem Generalbundesstaatsanwältin Monika Harms Beschwerde gegen das Urteil eingelegt hatte. „Es ist wichtig, dass der BGH der bisherigen Praxis der Onlinedurchsuchung einen Riegel vorschiebt.“ Dennoch sei das Urteil kein Grund zum Jubeln. “Der BGH hat lediglich die fehlende Rechtsgrundlage moniert.” so Twister. “Für die Politik war dies kein Grund, sich einmal mit der Beurteilung der Maßnahme zu befassen. Stattdessen hat man z.B. in Nordrhein-Westfalen als Konsequenz ein entsprechendes Gesetz geschaffen.”…“ Pressemitteilung vom 05. Februar 2007 http://www.twister-schreibt.de/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=52


Aus: LabourNet, 5. Februar 2007



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Video

America has set its sights on Africa, which, according to a White House national energy policy document, is predicted to be - together with Latin America - "one of the fastest growing sources of oil and gas" for the future American market. But in the global hunt for oil, America has to compete with an increasingly successful and aggressive major competitor - China.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/321/59/

It is not often that the empire is put in the position of one its victims, in fear of the military and technical prowess of another country, forced to talk of peace and cooperation, just as Iraq and others, hoping to put off an American attack, were forced to do over the years; just as Iran now.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/340/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=William+Blum

Keith Olbermann

Video
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/324/59/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Olbermann

Three former high-ranking American military officers have warned against any military attack on Iran.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6328801.stm


From Information Clearing House

America's military chiefs are at loggerheads with the country's diplomats and spies over tactics for confronting Iranian agents in Iraq over their role in lethal attacks on US forces.

http://snipurl.com/19cfu


From Information Clearing House

Consider Hillary Clinton’s recent speech, delivered to the AIPAC gathered.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=746


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AIPAC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary

She needs to end the victim act and stop blaming Bush for her vote on Iraq
http://snipurl.com/19cfb


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary

"One of the World's Great Man-Made Disasters is Taking Place"
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/343/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Cockburn

Sen. John W. Warner will join his fellow Republicans in voting Monday to block the resolution he wrote rebuking President Bush's Iraq war policy.

http://washtimes.com/national/20070203-121353-1086r.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+W.+Warner

The success of the Bush administration's new Iraq strategy depends on a series of rapid and dramatic political and economic reforms that even the plan's authors have little confidence will work.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/336/2/

Video

John Pilger and David Munro examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World countries, who are then unable to meet the cripling interest charges.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/317/59/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Pilger

By Mike Whitney

When was the last time Bush-Cheney devoted millions of dollars to anything that served the public interest? That is an oddity in itself.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/344/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Whitney

by Cindy Sheehan

Beginning on Monday, February 5th, the Occupation Project is beginning sit-ins in every House Rep and Senator's offices across this nation to demand an end to the war in Iraq by voting "nay" to giving any more money to BushCo for their murderous war.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/342/2/

Click:

By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

Speaking at the Democratic National Convention’s winter meeting, Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton declared that once she becomes president, she would end the war in Iraq and restore the basic promise of America. Mrs. Clinton, who voted for the illegal invasion of sovereign Iraq, knows she must end the Iraq war in order to launch another – a war on sovereign Iran.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/339/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary

By Eric Margolis

With disturbing deja vu, the U.S. Congress and media are swallowing the administration's torrent of unproven allegations against Iran precisely the way they lapped up its grotesque lies about Iraq.

http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/337/2/



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Margolis

Unabhängig von der Diskussion auf europäischer Ebene, könnte es einen neuen Anlauf für ein bundesweites Rauchverbot geben. Der SPD-Abgeordnete Lothar Binding wirft dem Innenministerium und den eigenen Fraktionsgenossen vor, sich stark von der Tabaklobby beeinflussen zu lassen. Die verfassungsrechtlichen Bedenken gegen ein bundesweites Rauchverbot würden stark auf Argumenten eines eng mit der Tabakindustrie verbundenen Rechtsprofessors aufbauen. Mehr: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=380



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tabakindustrie

February 5th - Occupations and civil disobedience at the offices of Senators across the country today will launch the Occupation Project, an eight week long campaign of civil disobedience to end funding for the Iraq war. President Bush is expected to submit a request to Congress today; http://tinyurl.com/2mc4fp.

As Voices prepares for the launch of the campaign, both in Chicago as well as nationally, we want to share a glimpse of the momentum that continues to build locally, regionally and nationally, as well as provide information on how to get involved.

Campaigns now stretch from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon and from Fairbanks, Alaska to Huntsville, Alabama. Campaigns are active throughout the Midwest, including: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri. Campaigns cover the western coast from Alaska to Washington to Oregon to California. Campaigns stretch from the east coast to the west coast: North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California are all actively organizing campaigns.

STAY TUNED! We will be updating our website throughout the afternoon and evening and provide you with more specific information as today's launch of the campaign unfolds; http://vcnv.org.

National organizations CODEPINK, Veterans For Peace, and the Declaration of Peace, have joined with Voices for Creative Nonviolence in actively organizing this campaign...making it a Movement of Civil Disobedience to End Iraq War Funding.

Find out more information and how to participate below. Please contact us with any other questions which you may have.

Scott Blackburn
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
773-878-3815
occupationproject @vcnv.org

GET INVOLVED! THE OCCUPATION PROJECT PAGE: includes full project description, resources, sample letters, updates, supplemental voting records, local campaign descriptions and more. http://vcnv.org/project/the-occupation-project

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY, SIGN UP TO PARTICIPATE: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project-signup

FULL PROJECT RESOURCE PAGE: http://vcnv.org/occupation-project/resources

EVENT CALENDAR: http://vcnv.org/vcnv-calendar/2007/2

LOCAL OCCUPATION PROJECT CAMPAIGNS: Find out what local campaigns doing? We will update this list as we receive more descriptions http://vcnv.org/occupation-project/campaign-descriptions


Voices for Creative Nonviolence
1249 W Argyle Street #2, Chicago, IL 60640
Phone: (773) 878-3815
E-mail: info @vcnv.org
web: http://www.vcnv.org

http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea298c90f92b01

Hüllenlose Überwachung
http://www.diagnose-funk.ch/aktuell/033ea298b81479d03/index.html#033ea298c80808701

by Devvy Kidd

Right now our fellow Americans in Southeastern Colorado face losing their homes, their land and their way of life. The U.S. Army is seeking to take over THE ENTIRE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF COLORADO to expand their training facility called Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS). We are already talking about the Army controlling a monstrous amount of land owned by the Department of Defense: over 25 million acres; the Army has more than fifteen million of those twenty five and they simply do NOT need more......

http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd246.htm



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/Devvy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/chartier/chartier60.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=PNAC
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/chartier

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff136.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/rozeff

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/greenwald9.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=/greenwald

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs54.html



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/higgs

http://ga0.org/ltwatada/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=6561177



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/03/AR2007020301604_pf.html


Informant: NHNE

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/exposing-exxonmobil_b_39843.html


Informant: NHNE



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Exxon

Handys können Krebs auslösen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261806/

Zunahme der Hirntumore bei Handy-Vieltefonierern: Risiko steigt um 39 Prozent
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3261838/

Lösen Handys Krebs aus, Krebs durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3265429/

Handy am Ohr: Hirntumor?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3270151/

Langzeitstudie aus Dänemark: kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3040849/

Kein Beweis für ein erhöhtes Risiko durch Handys?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271250/

Elektrosmog als Krebsrisiko: Kein Krebsrisiko durch Handy-Strahlung?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3271439/

Flucht aus Oberammergau: Pfarrer flüchtet vor Handy-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3258411/

http://tinyurl.com/93epp

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5694/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Dear friends,

We've seen it all around us: droughts, hurricanes, weird weather and wild storms. Then last week, a major new report by over 2000 climate scientists ended all debate: climate change is real- we've caused it- and its impact will be catastrophic unless urgent action is taken.

Our leaders can stop this, but they've been too slow to act. This week, we're launching a global TV ad campaign on 3 continents to wake world leaders up to the disaster we're facing. Click below to watch our TV ad on our new website and sign the petition calling for urgent action now.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action/cf.php

Experts agree: we are fast approaching the point of no return. If the world's temperature rises by even 2 degrees Celsius the consequences for life on earth will be devastating.

This problem can be solved. We need a new international agreement that commits countries to major emission cuts, and drives a global shift to renewable energy. This will require bold political action -- and not just by one or two countries.

Climate change is a global problem that requires global action. It is time for people around the world to send a global wake up call to our leaders - before it is too late. Click here to send them a message:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action/cf.php

The leaders of the world's most polluting countries will be meeting in Germany this June. The priorities for this summit are being decided right now.

Public awareness of the climate threat around the world is reaching fever pitch. Now the argument is over - it's time to focus our energy on building a global movement to make our leaders act. Watch our TV ad and add your voice to the wake up call:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action/cf.php

It's not too late to protect our planet - but the moment is now. Please sign the petition, post it on your blog or favourite listserve, forward this email to your friends and family - and tell everyone you know.

Alone, we can't stop this disaster. But if we act together today, 2007 could become the year we took the first step to save the world.

With hope,

Ricken, David, Iain, Andrea, Jeremy, Rachel, Tom, Hannah, Paul, Lee-Sean, Galit, Graziela, Nicole and the whole Avaaz.org team (formerly the CeasefireCampaign.org team)


PS - In an online poll last year, nearly a thousand of you helped choose a great new name for our global campaigning effort - Avaaz means "voice" or "song" in many Asian languages. The new site is now up in 10 languages so check it out!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/climate_action/cf.php